Plastic pollution trashing the environment on beautiful Skye for half a century has been raised in a new film.

‘50 years of litter on Skye’, a short film produced by Loughborough University, hopes to highlight the issue of coastal pollution on the island beauty spot - and the efforts of researchers and environmentalists fighting to keep the beaches clean.

Working closely with local groups, a team of scientists visited the island’s remote shores last summer to analyse the extent of the litter washed up by ocean currents.

It comes after lead researcher Dr Tom Stanton found a 50-year-old academic paper which warned about the impact of plastics and rubbish being brought to Skye by sea.